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Chiang Kai-Shek vs. Mao Zedong and China
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In 1931 the Japanese invaded Manchuria in an effort to acquire more natural resources for their war machines, Chiang and Mao formed a truce in an effort to defeat the Japanese
The remaining communists formed the
Red Army under Mao Zedong’s leadership
Events leading up to the war
In 1927 the Communists attempted to
double cross Chiang and take over
the Nationalist Party
Chiang countered and tried to wipe
out his one-time Communist allies
Mao Zedong
The leader of the communists in
Northeastern China. Red Army formed in
the South but pushed North
during the Long March
Chiang Kai-Shek vs.
Mao Zedong and China
In 1927, Chiang Kai-Shek
defeated the warlords
with aid from the
Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-Shek
The leader of the Kuomintang (KMT)
or Nationalist party in Southwestern China
- Chiang Kai-Shek (1927) defeated the warlords with aid from the Soviet Union
- China became a communist country
- The British used opium to trade with China
- the Chinese wanted to eliminate foreign influence (British) but lost; therefore western influence increased
- In 1842 the British acquired Hong Kong (gave it back in 1997)
- Sun Yat-sen (1905) formed the Nationalist party
- Their goal was to modernize China and end foreign control
- In 1912 he became president of the new Chinese Republic
- The warlords, the wealthy because of land and trade, fought for control of China and won
Background
Sun Yat-sen formed the Nationalist party
events during the conflict
The U.S. gave aid to Chiang $3 billion dollars between 1945 and 1949 in order to fight the Japanese, but corrupt officers, kept most of it
The U.S backed Chiang for the reason that he hated the communists
He broke the truce in 1934 and began the Long March pushing Mao’s troops from the
South to the North
Only 8,000 of Mao’s 100,000 troops
survived the Long March. The
March lasted one year and
6,000 miles
The end result
- Mao took control in May of 1949
- Mao encouraged peasants to learn to read and write
- Chiang retreated to the island of Taiwan and established Nationalist China, which was referred to as Formosa by Westerners
- Mao established the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
- Today the PRC claims Taiwan is part of China, but it’s still independent
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